“Head Case: Season 2” is really season three. Long story. Doesn’t matter. All you need to know is that is that this Starz cable series is witty and funnier than you’d expect, anchored by an Emmy-worthy performance by creator/star Alexandra Wentworth, who is something of a hidden treasure on the American comedy landscape. She plays […]
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Twilight Vamps / Bikini Frankenstein / Bikini Jones and the Temple of Eros
<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=oklahgazet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002ZD3V1U&fc1=000000&IS2=1 Surely, “Twilight Vamps” calls itself that to piggyback the “Twilight” franchise, although what those kids do in those films is waaaaay different than what the people do in this one. Let’s just say the “Contains Nudity and Sexual Situations” label on the box is an understatement. The story is as thin as the […]
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Dead Snow
<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=oklahgazet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002VKB0K6&fc1=000000&IS2=1 Just as I was tiring of zombie movies, two have come along recently to show there’s still life left in the genre: “Pontypool” and “Dead Snow.” Whereas the former broke new ground by aiming for the mind, the Norwegian “Dead Snow” goes for the gut —? first to punch you, then to tickle […]
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Everybody’s Fine
“Everybody’s Fine” is about a guy whose sense of order, which happens to be attached to his children, steadily degrades as he becomes reacquainted with them. Robert De Niro stars as Frank Goode, and eight-months-widowed retiree. Frank is expecting a visit from his four children, Rosie (Drew Barrymore), Robert (Sam Rockwell), Amy (Kate Beckinsdale) and […]
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Law Abiding Citizen
<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=oklahgazet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002XMGGK6&fc1=000000&IS2=1 After witnessing “The Ugly Truth,” it’s good to see Gerard Butler back in a movie with balls … which he later severs with a box cutter. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Butler stars as Clyde Shelton, the “Law Abiding Citizen” of the title who watches in horror as his wife and child […]
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Elvis
“Elvis” is the one “huh?” entry on director John Carpenter’s filmography, not because it’s bad (it’s not) or because it was made for TV (he’s done plenty of those), but because it lacks any element that’d place it in the horror or sci-fi genres. Admit it: You wouldn’t expect the man behind “Halloween,” “Escape from […]
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Meteor Apocalypse
The Asylum Home Entertainment’s “Meteor Apocalypse” comes 10 years too late to piggyback off the success of space-rock disaster extravaganzas “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon,” but right on time to tap into the ol’ family values conservative movement. See, despite its sci-fi trappings, “Meteor Apocalypse” is branded as a Faith Films production, “a Christian apocalyptic thriller […]
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Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
One of the most fun theatrical experiences I’ve ever had was seeing Eli Roth’s absurd, intense “Cabin Fever” on opening day in 2002 with two friends who “got it.” By contrast, “Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever” bypassed theaters, so the only way I could re-create the experience of the first would be watching at home […]
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Bonekickers
<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=oklahgazet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002UXYCYA&fc1=000000&IS2=1 Although apparently this BBC series was met with indifference during its 2008 run by our English friends, I quite liked “Bonekickers.” It helps, of course, that it adhered to the British tradition of getting out while it’s good. None of our American, 24-episode-season shenanigans; “Bonekickers” called it quits after its sixth hour. It’s […]
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The Boys Are Back
For his role as a widower in “The Boys Are Back,” Clive Owen was short-listed last year as a possible Oscar contender. As we saw last week, that didn’t happen, but it remains a good performance, so for a well-executed, underseen drama, rent it on DVD. Owen is Joe, an Australian sportswriter whose wife suddenly […]